Dakar, June 21 (APS) – The launch of the Dakar-New York-Washington route is scheduled for September 2, we learned on Monday from the Managing Director of the airline Air Senegal SA, Ibrahima Kane
The Dakar-New York-Washington line will link Senegal and the United States twice a week. We will also connect on these two flights all the others to the sub-region, namely Conakry, Bamako, Banjul, Freetown, Praia and Nouakchott, ” he said.
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Mr. Kane was speaking at the videoconference coordination meeting devoted to monitoring the roadmap on the implementation of the national air hub and tourism development strategy 2021-2025. The meeting was chaired by the Minister of Tourism and Air Transport Alioune Sarr.
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This line will start with an A330 Neo aircraft which will offer one of the best comforts, which is increasingly showing its potential, assured DG Kane.
He took advantage of his presentation to talk about the record broken by the company on the number of transit traffic at the Blaise Diagne de Diass International Airport (AIBD).
According to him, 1,000 passengers have passed between Paris, Dakar and the sub-region. “This is the first time that we have crossed this threshold of 1,000 passengers in a week. The hub is being built and things are moving forward, ” Kane said.
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